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KNIME Essentials

By : Gábor Bakos
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KNIME Essentials

By: Gábor Bakos

Overview of this book

KNIME is an open source data analytics, reporting, and integration platform, which allows you to analyze a small or large amount of data without having to reach out to programming languages like R. "KNIME Essentials" teaches you all you need to know to start processing your first data sets using KNIME. It covers topics like installation, data processing, and data visualization including the KNIME reporting features. Data processing forms a fundamental part of KNIME, and KNIME Essentials ensures that you are fully comfortable with this aspect of KNIME before showing you how to visualize this data and generate reports. "KNIME Essentials" guides you through the process of the installation of KNIME through to the generation of reports based on data. The main parts between these two phases are the data processing and the visualization. The KNIME variants of data analysis concepts are introduced, and after the configuration and installation description comes the data processing which has many options to convert or extend it. Visualization makes it easier to get an overview for parts of the data, while reporting offers a way to summarize them in a nice way.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Open Street Map


In the KNIME Labs Extensions (available from the main KNIME update site) you can install the KNIME Open Street Map Integration in order to visualize spatial data.

This extension contains two nodes, OSM Map View and OSM Map to Image. The first one is the interactive, you can browse the map and check the data points (the tooltips can give details about them), think find the distribution of interesting points by HiLiting them. (HiLiting cannot be done using these nodes, but you can select area "blindly" if you use a Scatter Plot with the longitude and latitude information.)

Both nodes require coordinates to be in the range of -90 to 90 for latitude and -180 to 180 for longitude if there is an input table (which is optional). The image node's configuration includes a map to select which area should be visible on the resulting image, the configuration for the coordinates is on the Map Marker tab.

In the OSM Map View, you can browse by holding the right mouse button down and moving...